CLACTON MAN JAILED FOR STRANGULATION AND ASSAULT
AN abusive boyfriend who came home drunk from a Halloween party rowed with his partner then left her thinking she was going to die after strangling her.Cameron Cubagee, 28, grabbed his victim by the hair and dragged her into her house after the two had returned home from a night out in Clacton.
After shoving her upstairs and stopping her from leaving her bedroom, Cubagee hurled his girlfriend's phone at her before she fled to a neighbour’s address and called 999, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.
Cubagee, who tried to contact the victim from prison after being remanded in custody, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail.
Harriet Lewis, prosecuting, said Cubagee and his victim had been in an on-and-off relationship for three years when the two re-established contact last year.
An argument started when Cubagee started scrolling through his victim’s phone after a Halloween party.
She left the house and had only made it two doors down the street when Cubagee grabbed her hair and yanked her inside.
In the hour-long argument, he smashed up her £500 iPhone and stopped her from breathing.
Ms Lewis said: “He put his knees across her jawline and her neck and leaned his bodyweight on to her.
She describes herself as being in so much pain she thought she was going to die.
“At this point the defendant went downstairs to get the victim an icepack – she was on her hands and knees retching and gagging because she was in so much pain.” After the victim escaped and called the police, Cubagee was arrested and released on bail but breached his bail conditions by contacting the victim and her friends on social media.
Despite being remanded in custody, he managed to contact his victim by giving her phone number to a friend.
In a victim impact statement, the woman said: “From being a very confident, outgoing, bubbly person, I feel I am now a shell of myself.”
